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We’re all excited to be supporting the Forward Foundation in a competition to find the best new ideas for using technology to help people find work – Tech2Job. Find out more, here:
We’ve always backed lots of technology projects at Live UnLtd – whether it be running a web TV channel, doing web and graphic design, music production or inventing a phone app.
What these projects have in common in addition to using technology, is that they help others and allow each Award Winner an opportunity to try something new and learn new skills. Who knows where it could lead…?
Lashai’s App
Take Lashai Ben Salmi, for example who sees apps as a way to make a change for those who are being bullied. The 11-year-old from London has experienced bullying first-hand, and even moved schools because it was getting so severe.
Lashai saw an opportunity to use phone app technology to create “RED CARD IT!” to offer those being bullied some advice, information, and a place where they feel less isolated by their situation. READ MORE
Start your own web TV station
Jordan Muzio, 21, started The Channel as a way to give, “young people a voice”. It’s an opportunity to talk about topics like education and work, as well as things like entertainment and music.
“I wanted young people to talk to other young people through a medium that was going to reach them. I thought, ‘What if I could do this? How many other people would I help besides myself in the process?’”
Jordan’s project is also an opportunity for other to get experience in acting, presenting, sound and lighting, filming and editing. “Everyone can contribute,” she says. READ MORE
Sanders’ mixed media
In Stafford, Harley Sanders has created a two-part project which engages young people through music technology both inside and outside of school, and also offers ”a professional yet affordable design service to help new businesses and artists”.
Award Winner Harley, who is a DJ, music producer and graphic designer, offers others an alternative to traditional music lessons, and an alternative to hanging around on street corners.
“I wanted the pupils to focus on something I have a passion for, and hopefully give them something to do after school through workshops, and also get them involved with DJing and helping at club nights,” he told us.
The project also serves as an avenue for him to create a viable graphic design business. READ MORE
Making tracks
Sticking with music, check out Urban Fresh, a Coventry-based musical initiative from Award Winner Stanley Saugweme and co-founder Pawnell Kimani.
Urban Fresh’s members are a talented bunch, as the video below suggests. They meet once a week and attend monthly professional studio sessions, mentored by Stanley and Pawnell. It allows members to develop their songwriting, recording and production skills.
Going the extra Blu Mile
Award Winner Blu Evans and business partner Miles Fleming have created the Blu Mile website that covers music, culture and fashion (they’re obsessed with trainers!) – and showcases their and collaborators’ talents.
“Where we grew up, it didn’t seem like there was much celebration of what people were achieving,” says Miles. “So we thought there needed to be a place where we could showcase people’s talents alongside our own creative projects.”
The Blu Mile has brought together a group of contributors, editors, and videographers, one of whom was recently asked to work on something for Channel Four based on a video he created for theblumile.com, which you can watch below.
“From the start we tried to build a little team of those actively looking to showcase their work, so everyone feels a part of something,” says Blu. “We feel this is the best way to encourage talent, with the idea being that we all grow together.”
The Skype’s the limit?
Technology can bring us closer and allow us to communicate better, as proven by Cambridge University student Josh Levy’s Affinity Project.
In addition to raising money for schools, he has established weekly Skype sessions where a pupil is paired up with a student advisor to talk about their particular ambitions, goals and interests, and how they think they could achieve them. Josh says of using Skype that it “eliminates the problem of distance”. READ MORE
Technology – Now it’s your turn
Our Tech2Job competition is asking you to think of smart ways of using technology to help people find jobs.
Not all of the projects above do exactly that, but we hope they’ve given you something to think about. You could create new technology or software, or you could think of a great way of using stuff that’s already out there to your advantage.
Can you think of a way to use technology to help get your friends the jobs they really want? READ MORE
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